This summer saw the announcement that a new anime adaptation is in the works with Yoko Tamotsu’s series Mayonaka no Occult Komuin having got the green light. The second promotional video has now arrived along with some additional casting for the show. The series has Tetsuya Watanabe directing it and Higuchi Tatsumi handling the series composition. Yuko Ito is working on the character designs.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Jun Fukuyama as Shim Miyako
- Tomoaki Maeno as Kyōichi Sakaki
- Miyu Irino as Theo Himezuka
- Koji Yusa as Reiji Senda
- Takahiro Sakurai as Satoru Kanoichi
- Shun’ichi Toki as Huehuecóyotl
- Kazutomi Yamamoto as Yuki
The series kicked off back in the spring of 2015 in Monthly Asuka magazine and has eight volumes out as of this week. It’s also got a novelization coming up on July 25th, 2018.
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Plot Concept: Arata Miyako is a new government worker assigned to the Shinjuku Ward Office’s “Nighttime Regional Relations” department. Each of Tokyo’s 23 wards has one such department, which were established to solve paranormal and occult-related events. Arata can understand non-human speech that no one else understands, and he encounters a yōkai (supernatural entity) at Shinjuku Gyoen park that calls him Abe no Seimei — the name of a historical Japanese occultist and diviner.
